CURRENT EDITION
EASTER
Vol. 6 | Issue 4
March 31–May 18, 2024
Art from Michael Cook | Spiritual Practice with Ruth Haley Barton
UPCOMING EDITION
PENTECOST
Volume 6 | Issue 5
May 19–August 31, 2024
Juan Francisco Guzmán | Spiritual Practice with Cyril Chavis
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THE DAILY PRAYER PROJECT
The Daily Prayer Project (DPP) is a movement that exists to animate the life of prayer through the manifold beauty of the church. We connect and unify Christians by resourcing them with daily prayers, practices, music from the global-historical church, and visual art of spiritual and artistic value. All of these rich resources are built into a simple, functional, and beautiful product: our Living Prayer Periodicals (LPP).
We produce six LPP editions per year that move with the Christian seasons of Advent, Christmas & Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, and Ordinary Time. These editions combine dynamic and diverse content with a stable and consistent method for morning and evening prayer.
“The Daily Prayer Project has been an enormous gift to my spiritual formation. It is thoughtfully structured, beautifully designed, and globally expansive thanks to the prayers, songs, and visual art it incorporates from throughout history and across the world. I highly recommend it to anyone seeking to dive deeper into the beautiful rhythms of the Christian faith.”
— Anne D., Washington, DC
MORNING & EVENING
THE DAILY RHYTHM
The DPP is an entrance into the holy, unifying, and empowering experience of praying together in a common way throughout the Christian year. It is a participation with the global and transhistorical family of faith as we all learn, together, to pray without ceasing.
Much like the labyrinth, the diagram to the right is a way to journey through the elements. Each element asks something of you, moving you closer to the center.
METHODS & ELEMENTS
Call
There is an invitation always open to us. The Spirit of God calls us to come into the holy presence, and we respond to this welcome by entering in.
Psalm
The Psalms form the core language of prayer for the people of God and have done so for thousands of years. The Psalms give us language and postures of heart and body to express in the presence of God.
Adoration
We were created to adore God, and in the place of worship we find the joy of this purpose. This adoration happens in both silence and song. We provide four songs per edition in the Songbook.
Lesson
The scriptures give us the story of the Father’s redemption of all things in the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Pray
We receive every prayer as a gift as we put them on our own lips and in our own hearts. These prayers range from traditional prayers of the universal church to more modern and meditative prayers.
Abide
In response to what we have encountered in the first five elements, Abiding is an opportunity for deeper communion and self-reflection through meditating on the scriptures (lectio divina), considering the art in the gallery (visio divina), or using our bodies to practice throughout the day or week (praxio divina).
Benediction
We close our time with a word of love and blessing over our lives from God himself, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. Our journey of prayer is framed by the Call and the Benediction; God has the first and the last word over all things in our lives.
“Phenomenal resource . . . a robust liturgy for your community's life together.”
— James K.
ARTISTS & PATRONS
THE GALLERY
We believe the arts are to be deeply integrated into the life of worship and prayer throughout the Christian year. As an outworking of that conviction, we work with visual artists to adorn each of our seven editions per year with rich and thoughtful pieces that immerse the eyes in seasonal themes and invite prayerful engagement.
“The Daily Prayer Project is a blessing and a lifeline that helps me realign my gaze, drawing my attention back to the One whose love defines me.”
— Emily G.
FOR THE BODY, THE MIND & THE SOUL
THE PRACTICES
The Practices are devotional writings that explore various spiritually formative practices like fasting, confession, meditation, feasting, visio divina, and more.
“Our formation for cross-cultural life and love happens primarily through the ordinary liturgy and practices of life. If you desire this kind of formation there's no better way to bookend your day than with the Daily Prayer Project. It's biblically rich, cross-culturally saturated, and rooted in love.”
— Rev. Dr. Irwyn Ince, author of The Beautiful Community: Unity, Diversity, and the Church at Its Best
PSALMS, HYMNS & SPIRITUAL SONGS
THE SONGBOOK
In each edition, we feature four songs from diverse cultural origins. The Songbook includes sheet music, lyrics, and QR codes to access free recordings of the songs provided.
“Biblically faithful, aesthetically beautiful, culturally inclusive, and participatory. I can't recommend it highly enough for churches that want to invite their congregations into daily prayer and worship.”
— Isaac Wardell, Cofounder of The Porter's Gate
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“Our personal family worship has been strengthened by the liturgy and structure you've provided. We appreciate how it highlights the history of the church and the global nature of the church.”
— Linnea K.
PENTECOST EDITION
COMING SOON!
![An excerpt from @pastahjoel reflection on the ancient practice of a rule of life.
“An audit is an inspection of an account. A liturgical audit is the inspection of one’s own account of time…allow[ing] us to see where our desires](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614cb4ac1991cc1385162700/1663941732144-06ZESO3NCJBJVS7WXCPA/image-asset.jpeg)
